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Originally Posted by sweet_nothing
The Half Life series is impressive in terms of story and in terms of a psychics engine.
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you mean physics?
story is debatable. the physics were simply a matter of time. they just happened to be first. having said that ragdoll enemies does not make a game 'better'. the original HL was a very souped up quake 2.
someone please tell me quake 3 has been listed for it's actual improvement of all FPS games by being the first game to implement actual polygon hit detection as opposed to using bounding boxes around character models. curved surfaces anyone?
the only reason halo deserves a mention is for its 'progressive health' system. it was actually something new that revolutionized multiplayer FPS gaming, nothing else about the series is fresh or innovative.
or are you people still talking about the paint job as a reflection of a car's capabilities? it has stripes!!! it must go FASTER!!!